Cloudya

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December 2010

99 posts

Me: Gah! I hate it when my yarn gets all knotty! Ken: Cause then you have to spank it? Me: Heh. Homonyms! *high five*

November 2010

61 posts

I went to the on-campus health clinic yesterday because I was tired of racking up unexpected medical bills. The clinic is almost exclusively used by undergrads, so I was the oldest person there by at least 15 years. But it was fine. I sat in that waiting room with those kids. I wrapped myself up in my old hoodie and put my headphones in, and I took out my knitting and proceeded to make a very...

I swept five dead things from my office today. The sixth I covered with an old paper towel.

“TEABAG ME!”

– Ways I inadvertently silence a room

I did poorly in college. Or rather, I did well, exceedingly well, until I declared a major. If you look at my college transcripts, you’ll see I aced classes like Conversational French, Women in Art, and Creative Writing. Calculus, however, I failed three times. Three times! Not because I’m stupid, but because I couldn’t make myself go to class. It wasn’t until I lucked...

Truthful Tuesday

I cried when Pam and Jim got married on The Office. I cried when Lost ended, and when Jin and Sun died. I’ve cried at the end of no less than four Modern Family episodes. I’ve learned a dozen little science and math factoids from House, Lie to Me, Bones, Numb3rs, and countless documentaries. I’ve learned about the human condition and the human soul from Californication, Dead...

I just went back through 50 pages of my tumblr

I’ve been giving my Etsy info out to non-tumblrs, and because my Etsy username is the same as my tumblr username, I’m worried someone (my mother) will google “cloudya” and find my tumblr and promptly proceed to freak the fuck out. So I’m working on PG-ifying it for anyone (my mother) who might stumble across my tumblr. Or “stumblr”, if you will. Anywho,...

I made a hair appointment and promptly forgot where my appointment was. Instead of stressing, I made my way over to Lincoln Road assuming I would somehow magically just end up at the right salon. There are a lot of hair salons on Lincoln Road. I know because I stopped in every single one and asked if they had me on the books for a hair appointment that day. I never found the right salon. But...

nicky36 asked: I ORDERED STUFF FROM YOUR ETSY STORE!

Most uninteresting thing I learned today

Doing a google image search of “cloudya” yields 1 picture of Colin Firth and lots of pictures of marijuana plants (???), but zero pictures of my boobs.

Dreaming of Freedom

Last night I woke up with tears running down my face. I struggled to sit up, blinking in the darkness as sobs spillled from my lips. Loud, helpless sobs that shook my entire body. What was I dreaming? I was dreaming about my job. I was dreaming about the six years I’ve spent working towards a Biochemistry PhD. I hate this. I hate that my daily life can reduce me to tears. I hate that...

Ken: So what are your feelings on this biking trip to the Everglades? Me: Are you kidding? There’s alligators that lay across the bike path just waiting for you. No thank you. Ken: They won’t get you. Me: Yes they will. It’s like the circle of life. I’ve eaten gator before. So now an alligator will eat me. Ken: That’s…that’s not how the...

“What would you do?” I ask him, “if I decide I just want to crochet for the rest of my life?” “You mean instead of science?” he says. “Yep. What if I just live off my Etsy earnings and what I make at craft fairs and vendor shows? I’ll wake up early every morning and crochet until my fingers hurt. And then in the afternoons I’ll crochet...

There's something worse than walking into an...

It’s walking into an elevator filled with a stranger’s cologne and realizing that said cologne is the same one he used to wear. That guy who tore your heart into pieces so many years ago. The one you haven’t thought about for a long, long time, but whose face is suddenly swimming before you, reminding you how easy it was for him to win your love, and how much easier it was for...

Truthful Tuesday

I haven’t been on Tumblr much lately. I miss it. I haven’t been on because I’ve been having health issues that I don’t want to share. I don’t want to share them because sharing them makes them real. I hate this. I hate feeling older. Feeling like my body is slowing down. Feeling like my mind is willing but my body isn’t able. I hate feeling like...

St. Trinian's - A Review

I finally saw St. Trinian’s last night, despite having the DVD in my library for several months. It was well worth the wait. By which I mean, it was good I waited because there was absolutely no rush to see this movie. It was a trite, boring, throwaway little film, and I have no idea why they made a sequel. Oh wait, yes I do. Allow me to list the only decent parts of this movie, which...

Unstabbing the sacred cow

Farmville. I love Farmville. I have a very pretty, pretty farm. Also, Christmas music before Thanksgiving (happy!!!), Coldplay, and texting the letter “K” (It saves time!)

This is a test.: Please buy a Purse →

eequalsmckenna: I hate when people do this, but here goes: I am a recent graduate with a part-time job. One. I am looking for work, but that has turned up nothing thus far. The biggest problem with this job is that when the kids dont have school I dont work, and don’t get paid. November and December are difficult months for me. Tonight I got my car towed. I left it in a parking lot, and...

Things I've learned through trial and error

The microwave will not double as a clothes dryer. Sushi will go bad if left out overnight, but Taco Bell will still be delicious the next morning. Especially if you’re hung over. The care instructions on garment labels aren’t negotiable. If lost in a foreign country where you don’t know the language, randomly getting on and off trains will get you closer to where you’re...

How to thoroughly piss me off

Tell me an hour before we have to be somewhere that we have to be somewhere in an hour. (How to thoroughly appease me - tell me you’ll buy me a whopper on the way there.)

barefootfussy asked: Describe your perfect Saturday

In lieu of a gratuitous picture I thought I'd tell...

I’m still wearing my pajamas. I’ve been watching ”Parks and Recreation” for five hours straight. I just finished an entire can of turkey chili. I both love and hate myself right now.

Truthful Tuesday

“No thank you, no butt strip,” is the weirdest thing I say on a regular basis.

Don’t wait until you’re PMSing to get it into your head to check who all has unfollowed you in the past few months. <sob> On a related note, every time I post something about Colin Firth, I lose ~2 followers. That’s fine. I know I obsess and it can be annoying. I know this. But I am who I am. The good comes with the bad. The yin comes with the yang. The Claudia...

anarchyandscotch asked: When you saw "Love Actually" for the first time and you got to that part at the beginning when it becomes apparent Colin Firth's girlfriend is cheating on him, which of the following most closely resembles your thoughts at the time?

a.) OMG that bitch how could you cheat on Colin Firth?!

b.) OMG Colin looks so sad and my heart is breaking for him!

I just got some really disappointing news

I want to cry. I want to stomp my feet and pout and throw the world’s most frightening tantrum because it’s not fair! It’s just not fair… Instead I’m holding it together. I’m doing the serene. Life doesn’t care if you pitch a fit. It does its thing without any regard for your hopes and your desires. So why fight it? It will be what it will be. ...

Sufjan Stevens (on the radio): I made a lot of mistakes, I made a lot of mistakes, I made a lot of mistakes Ken: Was one of them repeating that line twenty million times?

Me: Do you have something for me? Guy at front desk: Yep. Hold on. I’ve got quite a package for you. Me: Is it a big one? Guy: Heh. Yeah it’s pretty big. Me: Oh fun! Guy: Yep. Think you can handle it? Me: <suddenly become aware of the subcontext><giggle><blush>

“We can consider ourselves progressive and enlightened when it comes to the great...”

– Colin Firth

Me: Hey, did you see [redacted] put us on the guest list for his club opening? Ken: Saw that. Me: I e-mailed him to tell him I’d be out of town and I was sad about it. Ken: Did he write back? Me: Yep. He said I had to go to the opening because he required “decadence.” Ken: Decadence, huh? What did you say? Me: Well first I had to look up decadence because I’d only...

“I’m going to design a game called “City of One”. It’ll...”

– Ken I think he’s tired.

asher82 asked: omg! the darcy shirt is killing me with its awesomness. may i ask where you got it?